Mage Legend
Chapter 78: Episode 20: The Altar

Chapter 78: Episode 20: The Altar

(Another Perspective)

Today is the day our Great Lord demonstrates His divine power. Our mighty Great Lord always gathers us at this luminous altar every ten days to perform the ritual of prayer. Today is no exception, of course.

Our Great Lord is a powerful being, although He doesn’t appear like the others around me—He has five heads, after all—shhh, this must be kept a secret, don’t tell anyone. What? You don’t believe me? You’re telling me the Great Lord only has one head? Hmph, let me tell you, the truth is not what you think.

For a time, I was the one bringing meals to the Great Lord, do you remember? Yes, yes, it was just a month ago. At that time, we had just achieved an initial victory against the Gray Dwarves in battle. Those dirty, stinking short ones have been holed up underground for too long and have no experience, how could they be our match? Just creep close to them carefully, shoot the sharp snake crossbow arrows from our hands, and they will drop dead one by one. They wouldn’t even know what hit them before they died. Haha, I personally killed two Gray Dwarves in the tunnels.

What, what? I’m off-topic? Oh, right, let’s talk about the Great Lord’s five heads.

When I used to deliver meals to the Great Lord, it was the inner organs carved from the bodies brought in from outside. The Great Lord loves those who died from torture. Do you know why we have to smash those bodies outside into pulp? There you go, lack of knowledge again, right! Because the Great Lord says that those beating and pounding actions can better blend the food’s despair and horror into their innards, and when their hearts, livers, and lungs are squished together, the Great Lord thinks it tastes the best.

What’s that look in your eyes! It seems like you are showing disdain for the Great Lord! That’s not acceptable, the Great Lord is magnificent. He can use strong, glowing spells to heal some wounds and make you feel comfortable. Most impressively, He can make the creatures here obedient. Do you know how these caves were dug otherwise? However, the Great Lord has a very bad temper; if anyone dares to disobey his orders or speaks blasphemously, he will certainly deal with you very harshly. While he may not be the most terrifying Punishment Officer in the world, he is the most formidable one I know of. Be sure not to anger him.

Oh right, I seemed to have strayed again—about the Great Lord’s five heads. One day, I was carrying a tray with the innards of a Dark Elf female priest. Do you know? A Drow priestess! A powerful presence of the Underworld, yet in front of our Great Lord is just a dish. I carried that tray—honestly, its contents smelled terrible—to the Great Lord’s tent, the one with a crimson base and golden trim. I opened the tent flap, forgetting I should have announced my arrival first. At that time, the Great Lord was kneeling on a cushion, murmuring something towards a painting. His heads numbered five at that moment, which I saw very clearly.

That painting? It was truly strange, featuring something like an elder with many crosses sitting within a large red sphere. I was too nervous at the time, and just when the Great Lord realized someone was behind, He suddenly turned around. I swiftly lowered my head, pretending I hadn’t seen anything. It wasn’t until the Great Lord told me to lift my head that I dared to look around again. The Great Lord was still seated on the cushion, but both the painting and His other heads had vanished.

What? You still don’t believe me? Hmph, if He hadn’t suspected I saw His true form, why would I have returned to the role of a warrior, patrolling those intricate tunnels again? Isn’t carrying food and pouring drinks far safer and more pleasant? You just can’t stop fighting and killing, truly unable to see the bigger picture!

You say the Great Lord isn’t one of our Strong Snake People, so do we still have to listen to Him? Fool! Don’t you know that we are able to come to this prosperous place only because of the arrival of the Great Lord and His kind? Look at your grandparents, their bodies were so weak, their scales so thin, even wielding a weapon was feeble, what could they accomplish? They spent their lives in the swamp eating mosquitoes and flies. But after the Great Lord and His kind arrived, look at your fathers, how much stronger they’ve become? We’ve also acquired fine weapons and equipment, we’ve even learned some of the methods humans used against us, finally leaving that damned swamp behind.

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